Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2010 0:17:28 GMT
During the past days many ships have become stuck in the compact ice between Sweden and Finland all the way from the northern Baltic up through Gulf of Bottnia to kvarken
during Thursday evening more then 50 ships were stuck in the ice.
Some of these ships are passenger ferries enroute from Sweden to Finland
or Åland. Eventually one of the passenger ferries, Viking Line's Isabella managed to free herself and headed back to Stockholm.
The passenger ferries are built to meet the requirements of
at last ice class 1A which is the second highest ice class.
Unfortunately due to many mild winters,
the strongest Swedish icebreaker Oden are on a polar expedition
to Antarctica.
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unfortunately google translate wouldn't accept these pages in the translator:
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6721167.ab
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6722303.ab
during Thursday evening more then 50 ships were stuck in the ice.
Some of these ships are passenger ferries enroute from Sweden to Finland
or Åland. Eventually one of the passenger ferries, Viking Line's Isabella managed to free herself and headed back to Stockholm.
The passenger ferries are built to meet the requirements of
at last ice class 1A which is the second highest ice class.
Unfortunately due to many mild winters,
the strongest Swedish icebreaker Oden are on a polar expedition
to Antarctica.
Source 1
Source 2
Source 3
Source 4
Source 5
unfortunately google translate wouldn't accept these pages in the translator:
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6721167.ab
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6722303.ab